The Latin word vorare, meaning to devour, has been compounded with other Latin words to form omnivorous (all-devouring), carnivorous (flesh-devouring), and herbivorous (plant-devouring). All these words entered English in the mid sixteenth century as zoological terms; much more recently batrachivorous was adopted for application to people in nations such as France who eat grenouille, in England known euphemistically as nymphe aurore, meaning nymph of the dawn, or—less romantically—frog.
The consumption of both plants and animals.
Consuming foods of both vegetable and animal origin.